Sky Racing’s frontman welcomes spring, the Flat and Charlton’s returning Okeechobee

If there’s ever a time to be optimistic, it’s spring – the birds are singing merrily, the gardens are in bloom and the sound of pounding hoofs on turf herald the ‘real’ start of the Flat season. The false dawn of Doncaster’s Lincoln meeting makes the wait more excruciating with the persistent Noah’s Ark weather scuppering racing’s curriculum. In a perfect racing world (never going to happen) the Newmarket’s Craven meeting...